AWS CloudFormation Deep Dive

AWS CloudFormation is a keystone service of Amazon Web Services. To truly realize the agility, flexibility, and cost-saving benefits of AWS, teams must leverage automation and AWS CloudFormation is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal for automating the creation of and updates to our AWS infrastructure. This course will follow a learn-by-doing approach and will be heavily based on live demos; attendees will be encouraged to follow along.

What you'll learn-and how you can apply it

What AWS CloudFormation is, and how it can be used in modern development environments

Participants should have a working knowledge of the following:
- YAML and JSON syntax
- AWS core services
- Software development and operations processes

Participants should be familiar with
- AWS and key features and services like Regions, Availability Zones, VPC, EC2, S3

Course Set-up
- To follow along with the class or recording, participants should have the following:
- A text editor with YAML syntax highlighting
- An AWS account with admin privileges
- GitHub: https://github.com/talentedmrjones

About your instructor

Richard A. Jones is a certified AWS Solution Architect Professional and an experienced instructor having taught the IT teams of numerous Fortune 500s, and postgraduate students at the University of Colorado. Programming since age 10, Richard has spent nearly thirty years furthering his knowledge and skills of information technologies. He studied network switching systems in the U.S. Army, attained a degree in Digital Media, and has a long history of web and mobile application development. Beginning with a funded startup in 2009, Richard has dedicated nearly a decade to building secure, highly-available, cost-effective systems in Amazon Web Services, and has taught hundreds of IT professionals how to do the same. Richard holds seven AWS certifications including the Solution Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, and Advanced Networking Specialty certifications. Richard is also the Principal Solutions Architect for Cerulean Systems, a consulting firm specializing in cloud architecture, continuous delivery, and DevOps culture.

Schedule

The timeframes are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing